A city's street names can provide a glimpse into its cultural value system and a way to quantify cultural indicators, according to a study published June 30, 2021 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Melanie Bancilhon from ...
Social Sciences
Jun 30, 2021
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A study examining gender bias and family-owned businesses found daughters were rarely encouraged and received little support to pursue entrepreneurship education while sons mostly did.
Economics & Business
Jun 7, 2021
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It won't come as a surprise to anyone that women are underrepresented in leadership roles in many industries. This has led to a proliferation of women-only mentoring programs designed to challenge industry standards for female ...
Social Sciences
May 24, 2021
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Online translation tools have helped us learn new languages, communicate across linguistic borders, and view foreign websites in our native tongue. But the artificial intelligence (AI) behind them is far from perfect, often ...
Social Sciences
Mar 31, 2021
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Eighty percent of jobs are communicated to people informally and these communications are often riddled with gender bias, providing a female (versus male) candidate with a less positive description of a leadership position, ...
Social Sciences
Mar 24, 2021
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Most undergraduates will tell you they don't have a bias for or against any gender in the workplace—but surveys will often reveal implicit biases that the students aren't aware of. An interdisciplinary team at NC State ...
Education
Mar 2, 2021
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The icy continent has historically been a place for men. First "discovered" in 1820, Antarctica would not be visited by a woman for well over a century.
Social Sciences
Feb 11, 2021
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Tiny amounts of gender bias in employee hiring decisions contribute to concerning rates of discrimination and productivity losses that together represent significant costs, financial and otherwise, for employers, a new study ...
Social Sciences
Jan 19, 2021
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Human gender biases that limit recruitment opportunities for women are mimicked and exacerbated by artificial intelligence (AI) used for sorting resumés, according to new research.
Social Sciences
Dec 2, 2020
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A new study from researchers at Rice University found that Americans' attitudes about gun ownership are impacted by the gender and race of firearms' potential owners.
Social Sciences
Nov 17, 2020
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